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And it will be mission accomplished on that front when he steps out against the Springboks.

“They’ll be calling it the Dan Biggar game I think, the memorial game!” he quipped.

“When I decided to leave, the rule was you could pick wildcards, so that was still an option for me.

“Then the 60-cap rule came in and I was four short. I always thought it would be nice to get them in this campaign.

“If I had to wait until the Six Nations so be it, but it’s nice to get it sooner and we can draw a line under that and move on.

“I’ve said to a few of the boys, just because you get to 60 caps it doesn’t mean you are just going to get picked for Wales for ever and ever when you leave.

“But it does mean that door is still open for me when I leave next year.

“It’s nice I suppose to get that out of the way as quickly as possible, so that injury or form or whatever reason is out of the window and I can just concentrate on playing and finishing the season in good spirits.”

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While it’s job done for Biggar on the caps front, there is still plenty of work for Wales to do as they look to end their campaign on a high after defeats to Australia and New Zealand, plus a ground-out win over Georgia.

“We will find out how decent an autumn we have had at about 4pm on Saturday,” he said.

“If the scoreboard is in South Africa’s favour, we’ll all have to admit it’s been a poor autumn.

Dan Biggar in training with Wales this week

“But if we get a win, backed up with the performances against Australia and New Zealand, it will be a pretty decent autumn building nicely into the Six Nations.

“It’s massively important we get a win. That’s the only thing that matters for us as a squad, to make sure we are winners on that field rather than being positive about playing well, but not quite getting over the line.”

This will be Biggar’s sixth Test outing against the Springboks and he knows exactly what to expect.

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“It’s great for us. We get another chance to sample 70,000 at the Principality Stadium, playing against one of the best teams in the world.

“It’s important for us to keep pace with England, Ireland and Scotland and find some confidence and continuity for the Six Nations.”

Reflecting on the autumn campaign to date, he said: “We’ve been disappointed with the results against Australia and New Zealand, but we have shown lots of positive signs in the way we are trying to play.

Wales opened their autumn campaign with a defeat to the Wallabies

“If you are going to change your style a bit and evolve how you are playing, it’s going to take time.

“We just need to be a little bit more clinical.

“It’s great we are showing an intent to play rugby, that’s definitely the way we want to go.

“But it’s about mixing it in with what we are good at, which is a team that’s pretty good in the air and does the basics fairly well.

“So it’s balancing playing open free rugby with being pragmatic at times.”

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The fourth autumn international always presents Wales with problems in terms of the availability of English-based players and Biggar could be caught up in that scenario in years to come with his move to Franklin’s Gardens.

“It’s tough for boys who have to go back and not be available for this game,” he said.

“As far as I am aware, I will be released for everything I’ll be allowed to be released for. I will deal with that at the time.

“I am looking forward to joining up with Northampton, going at it and getting out of my comfort zone I suppose.”

Biggar will have an early get-together with his future team-mates as the Ospreys have back-to-back games against the Saints in the Champions Cup, starting next week.

“I suppose not many people would have been in that situation before,” he said.

“It’s naturally going to be a little bit awkward, but I am looking forward to the challenge and the pressures it brings.”